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British-German couple warn against moving to Spain after being told to ‘go back home to their own country’ and suffering post-Brexit red tape nightmare

A BRITISH-German couple have given up on living in Spain after being told to ‘go back home’ and facing a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’ due to post-Brexit residency rules. Janie Garner,...

Spain’s housing crisis: Long-term rental housing continues to vanish while ‘seasonal lets’ are up 55% as landlords take advantage of loophole

THE protestors taking to the streets across Spain over the cost of housing will feel vindicated by the latest data from Idealista. Figures for the second trimester of 2024...

REVEALED: Why Spain’s property sales in May soared so unexpectedly high

MAY’S home sales figures in Spain plummeted by 21.5% compared to a year earlier. The National Institute of Statistics(INE) showed 44,013 were carried out in May- the worse figure...

Spanish bank launches budget rentals in Andalucia to relieve rental crisis: Prices start from €300 a month

A SPANISH bank has launched budget rental properties in Andalucia, with prices starting at just €300 a month to relieve the area’s rental crisis. In Ibiza people are sleeping...

Spain’s housing crisis gets worse: Spanish rental market hit by double whammy of soaring prices and shrinking supply with some hotspots seeing near 20% rises year-on-year

THE rental prices of housing in Spain have increased by 13.2% over the last 12 months, according to a report published by Idealista. Prices have been rocketing by 5%...

Home sales continue to rise in Spain along with property prices and number of new mortgages

HOME property purchases in Spain went up by 3% in May compared to a year earlier with prices rising by 1.3%, according to figures from the General Council of...

Spain’s junior coalition party Sumar proposes VAT hike for tourist lets in bid to push landlords to offer longer-term contracts

SPAIN’S leftist alliance Sumar, which is the junior partner in the Socialist-led coalition government, has come up with a range of proposals for tax rises aimed at tourist apartments. ...

Young people in Spain are less in debt because they cannot afford to take out home mortgages

THE Bank of Spain says that debt has fallen dramatically among young people in the last 30 years because they cannot afford home mortgages. The bank’s half-yearly family finance...

Jasmine Harman responds to claim that A Place In The Sun is ‘fake’ – after hearing accusation from a British expat in Spain

JASMINE Harman has responded to rumours that A Place In The Sun is ‘fake’. The presenter addressed the claim on social media after a member of her team heard...

Spain cracks down on short term property rentals – these are the proposed new rules

THE SPANISH government is considering two new rules to crack down on short term property rentals. Today, July 3, Spain considered two main measures to combat short term rentals,...